Mobile Alert Response via Verbal Code Training
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Solution Overview
Problem
Event notification systems in healthcare environments require complex and costly speech-to-text conversion for verbal responses to alert messages, increasing the complexity and cost of mobile communication devices and the systems they communicate with.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a training mode in mobile communication devices that associates verbal or audible responses with assigned alert message response codes, allowing for simplified data channel communication without the need for voice-to-text conversion, using a mode selection switch to toggle between training and normal operation modes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If speech-to-text conversion is implemented for verbal responses, then response capability is improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the speech-to-text conversion functionality from the mobile communication device and relocates it to the event notification system server. The mobile device only needs to transmit raw audio data, while the server handles the complex speech recognition and text conversion processes. This extraction eliminates the need for complex speech-to-text modules in mobile devices, reducing their complexity and cost while maintaining full verbal response capability.
2Ease of operation
If speech-to-text conversion is implemented for verbal responses, then response capability is improved, but system cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
By extracting speech-to-text conversion from mobile devices and centralizing it in the event notification system server, the patent reduces the bill of materials and manufacturing complexity for each mobile device. The system leverages the server's existing computational resources and speech recognition capabilities, avoiding duplication of expensive speech processing hardware and software licenses in each mobile unit.
Solution Approach 2:
The event notification system server provides speech-to-text conversion as a shared resource that serves multiple mobile devices simultaneously. This multi-functional approach allows one server to handle speech recognition for numerous users, reducing the overall system cost compared to each device having its own speech-to-text conversion capability.
3Ease of operation
If verbal responses are transmitted over voice channels, then response capability is improved, but voice channel occupancy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the use of voice channels for transmitting verbal responses with data channel communication. Mobile devices transmit audio data or coded response data through data channels instead of voice channels, allowing voice channels to remain available for actual voice communications. The server handles the audio processing and response generation, enabling efficient use of communication resources.
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AI summary
An alert message application running on a first mobile communication can be controlled to operate in a training mode and a normal mode of operation. In the training mode of operation, the application can receive over a short range wireless link a training message response uttered by a user of a second wireless communication device and associate audio information in the utterance with a response code that the user is prompted by the application to enter. In the normal mode of operation, the user can respond to an alert message played by the first wireless communication device with a verbal utterance, and if the response utterance matches the training message response utterance, the application generates and sends a response message to an event notification system that includes the response code.